The Compassionate Friends (SA) Inc. is part of a world-wideorganisation offering friendship and understanding to families following the death of a son or daughter, brother or sister.

What do The Compassionate Friends do?

The Compassionate Friends provide support group meetings, newsletters, telephone support and a library of resources to support you in your grief journey. We aim to offer comfort, consolation and hope.

Where can I meet people who understand?

The Compassionate Friends host events throughout the year providing opportunities for members to come together in support, friendship andremembrance. We hope that there is something for everyone.

When a son or daughter dies who can help?

When a son or daughter dies, no matter what their age or the cause of death, grief lasts for longer than society in general recognises. The death of your child is an unacceptable tragedy and it can take a long time before you regain any sense of normality in your life. “We Need Not Walk Alone.”

The Compassionate Friends (SA) Inc. is part of a world-wide organisation offering friendship and understanding to families following the death of a son or daughter, brother or sister. TCF offers support in the grief and trauma which follows the death of a child at any age and from any cause.

Our purpose is to offer friendship and understanding by reaching out to bereaved parents, to the surviving siblings and other family members to support them in the grief and trauma which follows the death of a child. We promote the positive resolution of parents’ grief, and to foster the physical, emotional and spiritual growth, in an open and friendly environment of bereaved parents, grandparents and siblings.

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Our charity offers support and friendship to parents, siblings and grandparents after the death of a child, irrespective of age or cause. We focus on the relationship rather than cause of death. Our aim is that people will find hope and meaning in life after a devastating traumatic loss. We

Saturday 13th July 2019 Morning Support Group 10am – 12noon at the Eastwood Community Centre This provides an opportunity to connect with other bereaved families in a relaxed setting, you will be warmly welcomed. So come along and enjoy a cuppa and maybe lunch with other parents who have

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About The Compassionate Friends

"The Compassionate Friends is about transforming the pain of grief into the elixir of hope. It takes people out of the isolation society imposes on the bereaved and lets them express their grief naturally. With the shedding of tears, healing comes. And the newly bereaved get to see people who have survived and are learning to live and love again."